Template Website Design

March 28, 2018

by

Ronan

Web Design

There are many website templates are available in the market like Wix, Weebly, WordPress, Squarespace and many more. Many people decide to use a template for a no. of reasons. I’ve outlined below some of the advantages and disadvantages of templates.

Advantages:

- These can be set up very quickly

- You can also do it yourself, or have someone in your organization do it without having any coding skills

- You don’t have to spend a lot of time on it

If you’re really hard pressed for time, and are in a hurry to get your site online, or if you are only starting out and your finances are very tight, then maybe you can go with a template. But keep in mind that it has these disadvantages:

- It is not a unique design, and there may be dozens or hundreds of other businesses using it. It can be very difficult to make your website stand out; and remember there are thousands of websites online.

- You have very limited customization options available in a template.

- Many templates are not built to be SEO friendly.

- In some cases, the background coding can be outdated which can result in your website not functioning properly on some of the browsers; in fact some templates are browser specific. This can severely limit your website.

- Building an e-commerce site on a template will give you extremely limited functionality.

- If the underlying coding is altered it becomes near impossible to update the theme when upgrades are released. So what began as a quick fix to get your website up could end up costing you more time and money in the long run.

- In some cases templates have many features that you would never use, so it is a waste.

- Any images or text you want to add to such a site, need to be adapted to fit in the predetermined areas on the template.

Template Website Design

March 28, 2018

by

Ronan

Web Design

There are many website templates are available in the market like Wix, Weebly, WordPress, Squarespace and many more. Many people decide to use a template for a no. of reasons. I’ve outlined below some of the advantages and disadvantages of templates.

Advantages:

- These can be set up very quickly

- You can also do it yourself, or have someone in your organization do it without having any coding skills

- You don’t have to spend a lot of time on it

If you’re really hard pressed for time, and are in a hurry to get your site online, or if you are only starting out and your finances are very tight, then maybe you can go with a template. But keep in mind that it has these disadvantages:

- It is not a unique design, and there may be dozens or hundreds of other businesses using it. It can be very difficult to make your website stand out; and remember there are thousands of websites online.

- You have very limited customization options available in a template.

- Many templates are not built to be SEO friendly.

- In some cases, the background coding can be outdated which can result in your website not functioning properly on some of the browsers; in fact some templates are browser specific. This can severely limit your website.

- Building an e-commerce site on a template will give you extremely limited functionality.

- If the underlying coding is altered it becomes near impossible to update the theme when upgrades are released. So what began as a quick fix to get your website up could end up costing you more time and money in the long run.

- In some cases templates have many features that you would never use, so it is a waste.

- Any images or text you want to add to such a site, need to be adapted to fit in the predetermined areas on the template.